Mrs. Dalloway

A woman buys flowers for her party, a shell-shocked veteran sits in Regent's Park, and the same clock strikes over both of them. Woolf worked out here the method she had been looking for-the whole of a life delivered inside a few hours of ordinary errands. She had considered killing Clarissa and gave the death to Septimus instead. Ninety-eight plates by painters including Edvard Munch and William Orpen follow the same London day, from spring mornings to soldiers and the streets around Regent's Park.